The National Universities Commission (NUC),
has announced that only 30 per cent out of the
1.7 million candidates who wrote the unified
tertiary matriculation examination (UTME) will
be admitted this year.
The executive Secretary of the commission,
Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, said this at a one day
public hearing on the regulatory conflict
between JAMB and universities in offering
admission in Nigeria.
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According to him, the only way to avert
admission crisis in the country was to either
expand access or create more universities to
accommodate students.
“The crisis of admission in this country
inevitable. Unless we expand spaces we shall
continue to have admission crisis in this
country.
“Every exam has its own problem. We believe
JAMB exam is credible and all of us operating
in the system respect the results of JAMB
exam,” he said.
JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede said there
was no conflict between JAMB and universities.
He said: “It is not true that we have 1.7 million
candidates that are ready to go into the
Nigerian university system. Of the 1.7 million
that took the exam I can say conveniently that
not more than 30 per cent of them are not
prepared for admission, they are just trying.
They do not have the five O level required to go
into the university.
“Secondly, let me also let us realize that 10 per
cent of the 1.7 million that we see or 1.9 as the
case may be they are not what can be
categorized as belong to the net enrolment ratio
for entering tertiary education. They belong to
the gross enrolment ratio.
“80 per cent of candidates sitting at the point of
sitting do not have the O level at all. They are
awaiting results. So when we are building our
theories and analysis, we need to be very
cautious.
“If you score 400 over 400 if you do not have
the five O level you cannot come into the
university. The basic qualification is the five O
level.”
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